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Definition
the spread of disease or any idea or attitude — especially one that is harmful
- Monks in desert hideaways, far from contagion; mountain goatherders who'd never mixed with the valley people; lost tribes in the jungles.p. 222.4
contagion = germs that spread a disease
- Silence would fall, as in tragic plays of long ago when the doomed protagonist made an entrance, enveloped in his cloak of contagious bad news.p. 106.1
- Maybe they too had hoped they could outrun contagion.p. 270.9
- The pleeblands, he said, were a giant Petri dish: a lot of guck and contagious plasm got spread around there.p. 287.7
- Contagious diseases, especially sexually transmitted ones.p. 293.4
- This would reduce the chances of infection in case any of the staff got sick; the Paradice models had enhanced immune-system functions, so the probability of contagious diseases spreading among them was low.p. 303.8
- He was worried about contagion — could the Crakers get this thing, or was their genetic material too different?p. 352.4
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